Brosch AI – Distorted Dreams demonstrates an attempt to deliberately employ AI animation tools in the context of cultural heritage and art archives. Specifically, it focuses on expanding and animating the artistic oeuvre of the Upper Austrian artist Klemens Brosch. The result of this experiment is multifaceted: a balancing act between clichéd, flawed output and refreshing inspiration. The artistic collaboration between human and AI shifts between interpretations faithful to the artist and unsuccessful attempts to steer the AI’s output in the intended direction.

Klemens Brosch (1894–1926) was an exceptional Austrian artist whose life took a dramatic turn after the First World War. His final years were marked by psychological and physical decline, culminating in his death 100 years ago. This inner tension is reflected in his late works, which combine fragility, instability, and apocalyptic imagery.
The exhibition presents the AI-animated film Brosch AI – Distorted Dreams (2025), which reinterprets Brosch’s drawings through generative animation, alongside an interactive installation based on Red Dinosaurs (1926), one of his final and unfinished paintings. The interactive work invites visitors to explore the image and its transformation through AI-driven processes.
A dedicated screening program complements the exhibition, featuring Brosch AI – Distorted Dreams together with the recent short film Unfinished Decay (2026). This new work offers a microscopic, AI-assisted exploration of a gigapixel digitization of Red Dinosaurs, animating cracks, dust, and pigment erosion. Together, the works provide two complementary perspectives on Brosch’s late oeuvre: expressive reinterpretation and material-based analysis.